The 110 Story "World Trade Center Mega-" Mosque: Coming To a Bus Near You
Censorship issues aside, the Ground Zero transit ad should have been rejected on straight visual grounds. The graphic is misleading to the point of fraudulence.
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DC Kumbaya, Finally!
If you thought bipartisanship in DC was long dead and buried, you might want to print out this photo and stick it on the refrigerator.
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Arizona Update: Coat Check
John Moore/Getty Images Here’s the latest from Getty’s John Moore in trying to get his arms (or lens, rather) around the battle in Arizona. The photo, taken yesterday, shows Mexican immigrant Jose Manuel in Nogales (that’s Nogales on the Mexico side, not the Arizona side). According to Mr. Manuel,...
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SB1070, Coming to a Theater Near You
Joshua Lott, Reuters Two days before the Arizona immigration bill becoming law, lets pay homage to State Senator Russell Pearce, the author of the legislation, not just for demonstrating his own narcissism in sitting for this portrait, but for helping usher in this law with a harsh, warped and...
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Sell Like a Man, Man
The disappointment of the Old Spice Guy ad campaign is that the progressive image of black masculinity is only funny—and only makes sense—when it is wedged into another narrative (one as familiar as the racist story that Old Spice Guy tries to displace). Women desire (and are most desirable...
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Obama OutFoxed
When is Obama going to just stop obsessing on these guys -- first in hopes for the better and, now, in fear of the worst (especially when the far-right noise has to do with race)?
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Yeah, You THINK You Know Shirley Sherrod…
On quick inspection of this damning photo from Farm Aid 2002, seems pretty clear Shirley Sharrod, then representing the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, advocated returning the United States to the Indians, doesn't it?
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What the NAACP Sees, and the Media Doesn’t, at Those Tea Party Rallies
If the NAACP is feeling a little paranoid, it's because the Tea Party has become a vehicle for white fears and coded (and visually, at least, not-so-coded) scapegoating as the country does becomes more brown and education and real opportunity does stays down.
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Oakland BART Shooting: Was He Even Looking?
Whether the shooting was committed out of panic, confusion, rage, or a combination of the three, the photo represents a horrible irony between Mr. Grant's role of victim as well as spectator as well as witness for having generated such a confounding piece of evidence.
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Shoe on the Other Foot
If whites are approaching minority status in the United States, this photo from South Africa could be a preview.
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Baring the President’s Fists
With Obama's big health care victory, has the first African-American U.S. president claimed the right to come out fighting?
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Health Care: We Shall Overcome (with an Assist to the Teabaggers)
Remember Selma? Credit the Teabaggers for helping drive home an analogy far more powerful than Nancy Pelosi marching through the streets of DC with the gavel used to pass Medicare.
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Haiti: Strictly Bananas
The BAG takes a look at the visual and racial politics of a cluster of U.N. photos from Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake.
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Even Hot Chocolate
Contributor Stan Banos deconstructs an ad for a coffee maker featuring a bi-racial couple
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CPAC 2: Black Power
Somehow, I'm not surprised FOX chose to illustrate yesterday's kickoff CPAC article with the the black guy giving a power salute
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That "Looting"
I think media has got to be very careful in using the term "looting" in the midst of Haiti's overwhelming humanitarian crisis, especially given how much that term calls to mind generations of violent protests and riots over civil rights.
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Annie/VF’s Tiger Trash
I've got three words for Annie Liebovitz's trashing of Tiger Woods on the cover of the new Vanity Fair: Naked, black(ened) thug.
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